Muhammad Rawwas Qalaji
- Died
- 1435 AH
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Muhammad Rawwas Qalaji (d. 1435 AH / 2014 CE) was a contemporary Islamic scholar and lexicographer, known for his research in Islamic jurisprudence and legal terminology, notably co-authoring Mu'jam Lughat al-Fuqaha'.
Scholarly Contributions
Qalaji collaborated with Hamid Sadiq Qunaybi in compiling Mu'jam Lughat al-Fuqaha' (Dictionary of Juridical Terms), completing the text in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on 1 Rajab 1404 AH (27 March 1984 CE). The work is structured as a specialized reference defining classical jurisprudential terms alongside equivalents in English and French. In the field of classical textual editing, Qalaji collaborated with 'Abd al-Barr 'Abbas to edit Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani's Dala'il al-Nubuwwah.
In modern legal application, he examined commercial transactions in his treatise al-Mu'amalat al-Maliyyah al-Mu'asirah fi Daw' al-Shari'ah al-Islamiyyah (Contemporary Financial Transactions in Light of Islamic Law). In his legal analysis of modern contracts, he maintained that the contemporary contracting agreement ('aqd al-muqawalah) is substantive to the classical manufacturing contract (istisna').
Death
Qalaji died in 1435 AH (2014 CE).
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List of Works
Mujam Lughat al-Fuqaha (Dictionary of Juridical Terms) is a specialized multilingual dictionary of Islamic jurisprudential terminology. Arranged strictly in alphabetical order according to the outer form of each word, the work contains 4,390 Arabic terms alongside English equivalents, with French terminology provided when English is unavailable. Each entry presents the word's linguistic root and general meaning, followed by its technical definition in Islamic jurisprudence.